The Centre for Public History is a civic association founded by historians, dealing with the past experts and human rights activists, with the aim of – promoting the application of history in the service of society, in order to develop critical thinking about the course of history and key issues related to understanding the present; – empowering the development of a culture of peace and a society based on solidarity, responsibility and equality, starting from the civil interpretation of historical experiences; – developing educational practices to address current issues in the society and reflect about the world, using a multidisciplinary approach and historiography’s methodological and theoretical tools; – fighting for preserving the culture of remembrance through commemorative practices and marking the killing sites.
In order to achieve these goals, the Centre for Public History uses digital media tools for historical analyses and presentations of historical research to the general public, thereby promoting digital history as a method of bringing the historical contents closer to everyone, especially in the field of digital mapping